The presidential race for 2016is gearing up and candidates are preparing
themselves for the upcoming campaign. As each candidate announces their
intention to run, Clarion Project will provide a summary of each candidate’s
positions on issues relating to Islamic extremism in order to help our readers
make the most informed possible choice on voting day. Should there be any
significant changes, we intend to update our readers on the positions of
any given candidate.

Lincoln Chafee

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only and should not be taken as evidence of Clarion’s preference for any given
candidate.

Former Rhode Island Governor and Senator Lincoln Chafeeannounced his bid for the Democratic presidential
nomination on June 3, 2015. The following is the Clarion Project's compilation
of Governor Chafee's positions on Islamist extremism. It will be updated as the
campaign develops.

Relevant Experience

One-term Rhode Island Senator as a Republican
(1999-2007).One-term Rhode Island Governor as an Independent (2011-2015). Since
2013 identifies as a Democrat.

"[I]n
September 2001, those of us who wanted to know what drove bin Laden's rage
against us were looked upon with suspicion. Bin Laden had talked
extensively about 3 grievances: American military bases near the holy
sites of Mecca and Medina, in his native Saudi Arabia; the plight of the
Palestinians under Israeli occupation in Gaza and the West Bank; and the
misery of the Iraqi people living under U.N. sanctions."—Chafee's
book, "Against the Tide."

Does
not believe that Islamist terrorists are motivated by a hatred of Western
democracy and freedom. "He [President Bush] said, 'Americans are
asking why do they hate us? They hate our freedoms. Our freedom of
religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote.' He had not invested
10 seconds in the central admonition of Sun-Tzu: Know your enemy. He said
not a word to address the presence of American troops near Mecca and
Medina, or the Palestinian question, or sanctions against Iraq."

Opposed
the declaration of a global war on Islamic terrorism. "I felt
differently. We needed to find and destroy this small band of
international criminals, disarm their propaganda machine, and use
hard-nosed police work to prevent future attacks."—Chafee's book,
"Against the Tide."

"I
think we're using [the term] 'terrorism' too much. And it's coming down to
it's too much jihad, too
much crusade. We should talk about them as criminals," he said
in a discussion about the trial of the Boston Marathon bomber.

Blames
the Bush Administration, which he called "extremist," for the
enemy governments' pursuits of weapons of mass destruction, despite the
fact that their WMD programs existed long before 2000.

"With
an extremist White House in power today, we have many unstable, hostile
regimes springing to acquiring nuclear weapons."—Chafee's book,
"Against the Tide."

He hopes
that "eventually a Gorbachev is going to come along" in the
Middle East.

Opposed
Congress' designation of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps as a
terrorist group.

Says
that Secretary of State Clinton's policy towards Iran was too
hawkish. "Her approach to Iran as to the secretary of state, her
approach to Syria, Libya, Russia, Venezuela, it is all very close to the
'neocon' approach: muscular, unilateral. I don’t think that is in our
long-term best interest. We need a new approach.”

Says
that Secretary of State Clinton's policy towards Syria was too
hawkish. "Her approach to Iran as to the secretary of state, her
approach to Syria, Libya, Russia, Venezuela, it is all very close to the
'neocon' approach: muscular, unilateral. I don’t think that is in our
long-term best interest. We need a new approach.”

Opposed
potential U.S. airstrikes on the Syrian regime in 2013 in retaliation for
its crossing the "red line" of using chemical weapons.

He was
the only Republican Senator to vote against authorizing the war in
Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein.

Libya

Says
that Secretary of State Clinton's policy towards Libya was too
hawkish. "Her approach to Iran as to the secretary of state, her
approach to Syria, Libya, Russia, Venezuela, it is all very close to the
'neocon' approach: muscular, unilateral. I don’t think that is in our
long-term best interest. We need a new approach.”

Palestinian Terrorism and Israel

Sits
on the advisory
council of J-Street, an organization that is sometimes accused
of blaming Israel for the conflict in the Middle East and supporting a
softer approach towards Iran and Hamas. It has opposed
Israeli military operations against Hamas and supports
peace negotiations with Hamas. It has fought against sanctions on Iran and
supports
the nuclear deal.

Lincoln
D. Chafee is a presidential candidate for the 2016 presidential election, was a supporter for the 2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign,
a national co-chair for the 2012 Barack
Obama presidential campaign, a member of the Democratic Governors Association, a spokesman for the Republicans for Obama, and a board
member for NARAL Pro-Choice America.

Note: Barack Obama was the
candidate for the 2008 Barack Obama
presidential campaign, the candidate for the 2012 Barack Obama presidential campaign, and an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.

Kathleen L. Brown
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, and Jerry Brown’s
sister.

Jerry
Brown is Kathleen L. Brown’s
brother, the California state government
governor, and a member of the Democratic
Governors Association.

James
A. Leach was a member, leadership committee for the Republicans for Obama, a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and the
chairman for Common Cause.

Jessica Tuchman Mathews was the president of
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a director
at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).

Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982

(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United
States in war)

Ilyse
Hogue was a director of political advocacy for MoveOn.org, is a senior adviser for Media Matters, and the president of NARAL Pro-Choice America.

Lincoln
D. Chafee was a board member for NARAL
Pro-Choice America, a supporter for the 2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign, a national co-chair for
the 2012 Barack Obama presidential
campaign, a member of the Democratic
Governors Association, a spokesman for the Republicans for Obama, and is a presidential candidate for the 2016 presidential election.

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